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RE: VHS BLANKS STILL AVAILABLE

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In Reply to: RE: VHS BLANKS STILL AVAILABLE posted by DS.UK on October 22, 2008 at 03:49:14

Apart from quality issues, enjoy your collection; you're obviously quite dedicated to video tape.

I still have VHS and Betamax because I still have tapes not transferred to digital. While I can count the scan lines when I play them on the Panasonic 58 HD screen, I can still appreciate them as I see them more as a piece of my media history, much like when I play audio cassettes. There are lots of memories on them. Will I ever mistake them for my Blu-Rays? Hardly.....

Older formats I use because they ARE high quality: 2-track reel-to-reel and LPs.

CC.

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RE: VHS BLANKS STILL AVAILABLE - DS.UK 08:26:15 10/23/08 (1)
Someone with a brain, thanks for your comments.

I see newer formats as additions to my older ones, I have masses of stuff on VHS and Beta that will never see the light of day on DVD or Blu-Ray or the opportunity to record them in unedited form on a newer format on today's TV broadcasts (like old sitcoms) and even if shown uncut nowadays they'd be most likely be ruined by on-screen logos, promotions and other rubbish. I can enjoy my original clean-screen BBC/ITV and Channel 4 recordings on the formats that they were recorded on and which let me down.
- RE: VHS BLANKS STILL AVAILABLE - DS.UK 08:29:08 10/23/08 (0)
  That should have read NEVER let me down.
  
  I have my DVD recordings which failed me on the brain.
  
  Regards
Quality R2R and quality vinyl are hard to beat. - Wendell Narrod 08:13:48 10/23/08 (0)
DSD is pretty good too.

-Wendell

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